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If you introduced spoilage where fresh food/meat/eggs spoils (gains food poisoning percentage) at the rate of the stack size it is in, it would entirely solve this issue. That way, if people want their carried food to spoil slower, they will carry smaller stacks and store it in a functional cooler or fridge when not on them. The larger the stack, the faster it spoils. This actually happens IRL based on gasses released by decaying matter causing decay to spread, and is where the idiom "one bad apple spoils the whole batch" originates.
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And how do you propose this information is communicated to the player? This system would be needlessly complicated (from a gameplay perspective) despite its basis in reality, not to mention complications with implementation details. I think we all need to accept that food spoilage is not going to happen. There has been zero interest shown from TFP and it has been stated many times that they'd rather fix this BALANCE issue by BALANCING the game instead of introducing an entirely new systems.

 
@Fatal.....nice on the current bug fixes. Can you tell me if the campfires/forges no longer giving heat buff bug is going to be fixed or was that purposely removed?
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I'm not aware of any bug with that. In 17.4, my campfire removed the cold from my player and increased the temperature. Turning it off made me colder again. Works as I'd expect and 17.3 should be the same.

 
OMG!.... that is.... all the distant blocks are first drawn in the frame buffer, and then just closed by nearest? ....no work z-buffer?ie the entire array of blocks that are in front of the player - drawn on the screen?...

ie, nearest blocks that obstruct the subsequent do not exclude rendering those who follow them?

this.... is a enormous loss of performance........
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Well, it does use the z buffer and Unity draws Opaque renderers in a non sorted order, but yes, all chunks (blocks) in the view frustum are drawn by Unity. Static world games will spend many minutes processing a world for what can be seen from all the general locations in the world. We can't do that because the world can change drastically at any moment and when it does, players would be mad if we paused the game for 10 seconds to figure out the new visibility.

Our new occlusion system tries to do that in a realtime fashion by rendering simple occluder versions of objects and turning off renderers that are behind stuff, but there are latency issues, so things pop in and offscreen shadow casters not showing and it does add its own overhead, so it needs more work.

 
Hello guys, will we get the infinite rwg back again, or atleast sizes like 50kmx50km? Even the current 16x16 feels like a afternoon stroll once you have vehicles. Also generating anything beyond 16x16 can take days. I tried generating a 64x64km map and it never finished.

Would be great to hear from you guys! :)

 
Huh? So, I guess that' why sometimes my game would crash. Though, sometimes would simply crash to main menu. Guess that's fixed, now.
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If your game used up all your ram, it would shutdown. That is what the fix addressed. Depending on how much free RAM you had and how much you moved around in the world, that could happen probably every 2 to 10 hours.

Going back to the main menu is not a crash, since the game is still running. That would happen if you were disconnected from a server.

 
What exactly is the performance concern regarding objects and stuff? My computer is several years old and was midrange to begin with, six cores amd, haven't seen the game use more than 60% of one core, apart from some spikes. The gpu is maxed out constantly, but CPU is mostly asleep and I'm compiling kernels in the background while playing and use damocles map tool (only uses one core) while playing, watching Netflix and have pycharm run my bot in debug mode.

Not an attempt to troll, but I wonder why block calculations and pathing pose a performance problem when a three year old 500€ computer isn't even running at 20% of its computing potential.

 
What exactly is the performance concern regarding objects and stuff? My computer is several years old and was midrange to begin with, six cores amd, haven't seen the game use more than 60% of one core, apart from some spikes. The gpu is maxed out constantly, but CPU is mostly asleep and I'm compiling kernels in the background while playing and use damocles map tool (only uses one core) while playing, watching Netflix and have pycharm run my bot in debug mode. Not an attempt to troll, but I wonder why block calculations and pathing pose a performance problem when a three year old 500€ computer isn't even running at 20% of its computing potential.
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After analyzing stats on both Linux and Windows, I'm going to say the game has bottlenecks in the engine that are neither CPU nor GPU bound. OpenGL is hamstrung at 1.6 on Linux, but that is the only issue I've seen thus far and that can be bypassed easily by Steam Proton.

That being said, I think the engine developers should shift their efforts to Vulkan, even if it's just a shader port. Most cards in recent years support Vulkan just fine. Once Vulkan support is in place then they profile the engine and improve performance. Maintaining multiple APIs is NOT a great solution.

If your hardware is 6 years old with no upgrades at this point then you need to save up some greenbacks and consider a new build. If you aren't scared you can do a custom build for pretty cheap. Just stay away from hard drives. an m.2 1 TB SSD is approaching the $100 range and is MORE than enough to handle a few steam games.

If I had to recommend a "Medium" build personally I'd go with:

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If it's not, well, you can turn off the lighting. Grand total as of right now: $1025.27. You can make compromises on your build, but compromises now mean replacing parts down the road. If you have the extra money I'd upgrade the graphics card, but this build should last you quite a while. If you don't have that kind of money, I put together 1 more build below.

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If you don't even have THAT much to spare, shoot me the specs of your current rig, and I'll brain storm a way to get more umph out of your machine.

 
Just stay away from hard drives. an m.2 1 TB SSD is approaching the $100 range and is MORE than enough to handle a few steam games.
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$110 usd on Ebay, free shipping.

I saw some under $100 last week, they are now gone.

 
What is the current version of Unity what be use in 7 Days To Die A17.3? The exact version of Unity. Where can I see it? If possible, please give a link to the current version.

Thank.

 
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The current public build is 2018.2.0f2,

you can see that in the output_log

Its good practice not to change engine versions until the next major revision.

 
If your game used up all your ram, it would shutdown. That is what the fix addressed. Depending on how much free RAM you had and how much you moved around in the world, that could happen probably every 2 to 10 hours.
Going back to the main menu is not a crash, since the game is still running. That would happen if you were disconnected from a server.
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I have been having the " crash to desktop" problem too and have already reported it in the bug section. what i have noticed though is that the game window crashes. the sound still runs and the game is still running. if i do actions there is a sound corresponding to that action but there is no graphic window. ctrl-alt-del to task manager and stop the task is the only way to stop this. when i do this i get a small bar with ' seven days to die" and the minimise maximise and x . so the title bar of the window however it does not respond to mouse clicks.

 
Just a need to say &gt;&gt; and Not Sure where to say it .. So it is Here

Fun Pimps

Hope you are having a good Laugh with RGW Maps .. A 17.2 the map were Good .. Except for roads being all weirded out of shape … BUT NOW the Maps are crap .. Yes you flattened the roads .. but now I have tried at least 12 different maps and they are all Flat and so broken up with Biome's .. no rhyme to reason what goes where .. (maybe I'm just having Bad Luck)

BUT .. I HAD 2 Great maps in A_17.2 and I tried the Same Seed with a Fresh install in A_17.3 and they are total Garbage Now ..

I Sure this is a issue to BE Fixed and with over 3800 hrs in 7d2d .. I'm about to give up, until some serious fixing is done.

Still .. Thank you for a Great .. Just fix it please … the Old Gamer ..

 
OMG!.... that is.... all the distant blocks are first drawn in the frame buffer, and then just closed by nearest? ....no work z-buffer?ie the entire array of blocks that are in front of the player - drawn on the screen?...

ie, nearest blocks that obstruct the subsequent do not exclude rendering those who follow them?

this.... is a enormous loss of performance........
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Yes, which is why would like to implement an occlusion system but it is not easy since the world is fully destroyable.

 
Aw... of course. So speaking of bandits and I know this a longs way off. How will they be implemented? Like if I were a new a player that simply skimmed over the description of the game and bought this solely for zombies. How would the bandits be shown as a possible threat? Simply only during quests or will there be a chance of encountering some sort of bandit scout. Since I know for me personally, if I were to be attacked by a bandit that could use melee and do the same the actions as me, I would definitely be caught off-guard.
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They should be managable in smaller groups, but kind of an oh ♥♥♥♥ moment like when you encounter a dog, but you have a better chance to outrun them.

 
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